topic Re: When will the queue make sense? in Android

When will the queue make sense?

user-removed — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 17:00:56 GMT

There are only two areas where Google Play Music is significantly better than spotify:

1) It has a 10,000 free song library for non-premium users.

2) It has a completely editable queue.

In GPM/GPMAA, when I add a song or album to the Queue, it tacks it on to the end of the queue. As far as I know, that's how a queue works.

In Spotify, if I have started playing one album and I try adding another album, it injects the new album inside of the current album, immediately after the current track.

AC/DC Track 1 (currently listening)
Chicago Track 1
Chicago Track 2
...
Chicago Track 17
AC/DC Track 2

What gives there?

There's also another issue -- songs cannot be arranged once they are in the queue. So shuffling that misplaced queue album is an impossibility.

Re: When will the queue make sense?

Peter__ — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 20:48:17 GMT

I think this is because the "currently playing" location isn't really in the queue. To get the behaviour you want you would have to start a playlist or something then queue both albums which should then queue as you expect.

Re: When will the queue make sense?

user-removed — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:08:16 GMT

@Peter wrote:
I think this is because the "currently playing" location isn't really in the queue.

It sort of is: The currently playing song, or next-to-play song, is always featured in the queue. Songs that have already played are destroyed.

To get the behaviour you want you would have to start a playlist or something then queue both albums which should then queue as you expect.

To get the functionality I want, I'd need to create a playlist, and add two albums to it, or create a playlist and start a song in it and then add the two albums to it. Easy-peasy, except I don't want to continuously create and destroy and create and destroy playlists. Spotify advertises thier queue as a temporary playlist, and that's really what I would like.

The biggest killer here is the un-queue-like demand that clicking "add" does not "add" -- it does not "append" -- it simply does whatever it feels like. There is no normal behavior, no expected behavior, just a throwing-it-at-the-wall mentality that works okay for radio but disastrously for a discerning user who wants to use their music service like something better than a 1 CD boombox.

It's the Internet, Spotify... Need I switch disks manually?